"The most soul-satisfying Gardening book in years." -- New York Times (March 1982, reviewing the 1981 cloth edition from IU Press). "Is there anyone alive with the slightest interest in Gardening who doesn\'t know that Henry Mitchell is one of the funniest and most truthful garden columnists we\'ve got?" --Allen Lacy "Mitchell is a joy. "Genuinely a classic..." -- Los Angeles Times (on the occasion of Houghton Mifflin\'s paperback edition, which came out in 1994). "The most soul-satisfying Gardening book in years." -- New York Times (March 1982, reviewing the 1981 cloth edition from IU Press)